The effect reload problem in Prototype and Scriptaculous

March 9th, 2008

This problem actually relates to any site that uses queued effects, I just ran into it on Ruby on Rails. The problem is that if you queue up too many scriptaculous effects on a dom object, you will end up having nothing displayed, or flickering or highlights that never fade etc…

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Javascript Field Monitor

February 25th, 2008

While working on a recent Ruby on Rails project, I needed to be able to check the changes in the forms that were appearing on the page and highlight those fields on change. I looked around and couldn’t really find anything I liked, so I made one.

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